June 21st is Stonehenge's longest day and shortest night

21 June

Today is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

Happy Midwinter - Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice 2023 Happy Winter Solstice The winter solstice, officially occurring today at 10:27 pm here in the Northern Hemisphere, marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. This celestial event holds profound significance across cultures and traditions. Symbolically, the solstice represents a turning point as daylight begins to gradually extend, heralding the promise of renewed…

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Happy Summer Solstice!

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The Sister location crew! 🎉🎈

Those same hands which first touched so callously now frame you without hesitation. Consciousness is fleeting yet you are distinctly aware of the sharp nails cradling attentively at the base of your skull, and more still along the small of your back, keeping you near their embrace as the sky fades from your sight. How cruel, that your last, dying memory is to be held so gently in the arms of a stranger.

Open Water, Reckless Fishes is a Choose Your Own Adventure fic following your slow descent into madness and mystery at the hands of two strangely familiar eldritch beings.

It features art, music, and a plot which will have you questioning wrong from right. Your choices determine the outcome of this story, each having a unique reward and consequence that will eventually decide your fate, so choose wisely.

...If you're ready, you can start your adventure [here]

(Unseelie) Faerie Court Twisted Fate skin concept

My take on what the Unseelie court might look like. I hope we’ll get some dark/goth faeries too and it’s not gonna end up looking too similar to the Seelies :)

I know we're all 1941 first kiss truthing and having lots of fun with it, but I just got sucker punched with an even more devastatingly romantic possibility.

What if their first kiss was the night the world didn't end? That missing time between desperate guesses about a 300 year old prophecy and watching the dawn roll in together without knowing if they'd ever get another one. It's the quiet between two storms, the relief of saving the world bleeding into a last-night-on-earth rush, and if anyone's watching they're ruined anyway. If they make it out alive, maybe they'll have to think about things like consequences. For now they have this one night, and nothing that happens can be held against them.

By Victoria Chang

Start of the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.

Winter Solstice Arrives

It's the shortest day of the year. Embrace it!

🌬️❄️ Embrace the Enchanting Chill! ❄️🌬️

As the sun dips low on the horizon and the night grows long, we welcome the Winter Solstice of 2023! 🌅🌌 Today, the world pauses to celebrate the longest night and the return of the sun's warmth. 🌞🌟

Gather 'round the hearth, light those candles, and sip on some steaming hot cocoa or spiced mulled wine. 🍷☕️ Let's cherish this magical time when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest. ✨🌒

May your hearts be filled with the joy of togetherness, and may your hopes and dreams shine as brightly as the stars in this season of reflection and renewal. 🌠🕯️

Happy Winter Solstice, fellow Tumblr friends! ❄️🌙✨

I'm really curious about the process that goes on behind your art! Especially because you give so much importance to themes and it's like *chef's kiss*. It's always so well thought out and I find your references to all the snippets and readings really fascinating and very inspiring. How the heck do you organise your thoughts so well while reading ?

honestly organizing my thoughts. it takes. a while. to do it lmao

usually what happens is something like: I'll be reading a book on crassus, and the author refers to crassus as the leading domestic politician in rome while pompey was the leading military general. and this will set off bells in my head that go 'oh, roman household dynamics,' because the phrasing reminded me of a text describing the role of wives of roman politicians when their husbands were away (which I first came across in a text discussing octavia's role in her marriage with antony)

and while I'm doing all of this, I usually have a journal or sticky notes or literally any kind of scrap paper with me where I make short notes on what's interesting/what's connecting in my head/what would make an interesting subject to draw, no matter how unrelated it is, and then I'll look over everything once I've exhausted the train of thought like. man! this is borderline incomprehensible! let's make a comic about it.

then when I've done all that, I'll spend two or three days cutting down all the excess material and attempting to figure out the most direct way to convey what's going on in a scene so that someone unfamiliar with any of it might be able to follow along on vibes alone. sometimes it takes a week. sometimes I get stuck on something and I have to make a note to revisit it in a few months!

happy kupala night/svätojánske noci/summer solstice to those who observe or celebrate <3

-SOBS QUIETLY-

You are not an angel, you are not a martyr, you are not even a sacrifice. You were a child. Grieve this, mourn the loss of the life you had, and then let go of the chains you had binded to yourself to keep you here. You do not need to prove this loss meant something, your life was precious already.